Destroyer vs Barbarian
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nalders — 19 years ago(January 12, 2007 05:34 PM)
I haven't seen the movie, but from everything I hear and read, there are home movies better than Eragon.
Have you seen it? If so, how bad is it? (i.e; 'Gouge my eyes out' bad, 'walk out of the theater' bad, or 'mock the movie mercilessly' bad, etc.)
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BatmanReloaded — 19 years ago(January 13, 2007 09:53 AM)
Well I read the book and my main problem is they cut 60% of it out.
But getting back to Destroyer, my main problem is the dialogue (especially the scene in Taramis' bedroom) and the fact that we go from bloodbath in Barbarian to a tame sequel.
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nalders — 19 years ago(January 13, 2007 03:12 PM)
So the book was good? That would be surprising, given that the author was apparently a teenager when he wrote the novel. Most teenagers have difficulty stringing coherent sentences together, and the ones that don't are nowhere near capable of writing anything that could even charitably be called a novel.
Perhaps this is the exception; I may need to find out.
I agree with you, though: After "Barbarian", "Destroyer" was weak sauce. Bloodless violence, wrong tone and atmosphere, weaker score, weaker supporting cast. It was just a lesser movie.
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Malcolm10 — 19 years ago(January 19, 2007 06:22 PM)
barbarian as a film is better, better story and character development for sure, but i have to say i thought that destroyer has alot more of a D&D feel to it, wizards, thieves, warriors, barbarians, etc.
i thought the sidekick in destroyer was cool though. jar jar binks never killed numerous people with daggers to the kidneys.
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tomimt — 19 years ago(January 22, 2007 03:49 AM)
Howard did. I think Howard might even be upset, if he would learn, that his works are compared with D&D kind of fantasy. Good for him, that he's dead.
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jafought — 19 years ago(February 11, 2007 11:20 PM)
D&D is gay. First of all
Second Destroyer is gay. It is like a disney movie. Horrible script, horrible directing. In fact, I think it is one of the worst sequels ever made. Barbarian is such an amazing movie and they could have done so much with the story and they totally blew it. This director dropped the ball like even a thousand times worse than george lucas with the new star wars. Barbarian is a brutal movie, where conan is actually barbaric. The second movie is kid beep How can you even compare the two? How anyone can even say that destroyer is a better movie is just beyond crazy and beyond my comprehension. The plot is hollow, the dialogue is stupid, the characters are either annoying or just worthless. Absolutely zero creativity or real thought went into destroyer. A real shame -
Buzzzaw — 19 years ago(February 28, 2007 10:24 AM)
Barbarian is a "serious" movie, full of gore, deep-epic handled dialogues, scenes, music, etcDestroyer looks more for kids (weak plot, less gore, very predictableIt doesnt has that "epic-historic" feeling that the first has)
I choose Barbarian (and always will do)
It seems that results over Destroyer, made producers evict filming a 3rd part of Conan (sorry if this comment may not look accurate to you, but thats what I think) -
bastogne101506 — 19 years ago(March 18, 2007 02:56 PM)
Okay, dewd. Just calm down. This reminds me of a great scene from the Rutger Hauer film "Flesh and Blood" where the bride is trying to choose which necklace to take. One of the whores walks up to her and says "Silly bitch, just take both."
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Xeokym — 15 years ago(June 06, 2010 07:47 AM)
the barbarian is a coming of age epic film with a better story, stronger acting (less of arnold speaking) and the destroyer is cheesy.
LOL!!
"Coming of age"
story?! WTF? Who comes of age? It's not like Conan is a
teenager
and grows into being a man during the course of the movie! I think you just used that term because it sounded good without actually considering what it means. LOLhilarious.
Anyway, I'm not gonna argue with anyone about it, but I like both movies for different reasons, although I like Conan The Barbarian better and I think it's just a more quality movie. It's got a little more depth. That's not to say that Destroyer isn't a good movie in its own right; I like Red Sonya as well. I only wish there had been even more Conan movies. Arguing over preference, however, is practically pointless because everyone has their own tastes and we're not talking about any award-winning roles here. If we learned anything, it was that Wilt Chamberlain was more successful screwing women than he was at
acting.
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Taranaichsaurus — 15 years ago(June 06, 2010 03:48 PM)
LOL!! "Coming of age" story?! WTF? Who comes of age? It's not like Conan is a teenager and grows into being a man during the course of the movie!
Did you miss the first twenty minutes, where we see Conan as a boy, who then grows into a man during the Wheel of Pain scene? A coming of age is a person's transition from child to adult. We see that transition on film quite handily. Unless you have a different definition of "coming of age." -
iscream22 — 15 years ago(October 19, 2010 08:10 AM)
Personally i think Barbarian is better. Its more brutal, has a bit more plot, has better cinematogrophy and overall i think its more of a epic bad@$$ story. Destroyer isnt bad though i think it is kind of ADD on plot though it just seems like the movies story doesnt really go anywhere and the characters just wander around a lot.